Water & Wastewater

Water and wastewater companies face significant challenges as they seek engineering solutions to collect, drain, store, transport, treat, discharge and distribute water safely and effectively. These organizations rely upon a multitude of physical analyses — including computational fluid dynamics (CFD), hydraulics and mass transfer predictions — to model and verify the behavior and flows of water under a wide range of conditions.

Wastewater treatment plant: Streams from an inlet culvert demonstrate the typical flow patterns at inlet distribution chamber. Streamlines are colored by time, with blue representing initial time at 10 seconds.

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Software from ANSYS delivers the diverse engineering simulation capabilities needed to help water and wastewater companies optimize their process technologies, equipment and overall performance. The proven capabilities in ANSYS tools can assist engineers in designing new processes and equipment as well as optimizing the performance of existing water and wastewater systems.

Primary settling tank modeled with multiple drift fluxes

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Customers in a range of water- and wastewater-focused industry segments have used software from ANSYS to address these and other challenges:

Minimize the size of process tanks without compromising the effectiveness of water treatment processes

Model fluid flows in reservoirs, including areas of sedimentation, stagnation zones and regions of flow short circuiting